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Did Colonel Sanders drive 250,000 miles per year?
It's easy to find sites claiming that Colonel Sanders drove at least 250,000 miles per year.
TV Tropes makes this claim:
Even in his advanced age, he drove himself upwards of 250,000 miles a
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Did LA defund its fire department?
Most of us are probably aware of calls to de-fund police. Many may also be aware of the controversy over recent (spring 2025) mega-fires in California.
On a recent(ish) podcast (timestamp 51:55), ...
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Do wealthy individuals have much larger hippocampuses?
This viral TikTok Video by Kevin Trudeau, an American author, salesman, television personality, claims that "The size of the hippocampus" in wealthy people who have at least more than $100M &...
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Is the USA's military the only force that can defend against attacks involving cruise missiles & drones?
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In the now infamous leaked group text chat, the USA National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, claimed:
Whether we pull the plug or not today European navies do not have the capability to ...
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Do expatriate French citizens in the United States have a growing concern over the return of Donald Trump?
https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/etats-unis/4145552-20250327-etats-unis-francais-expatrie-cinq-songe-rentrer-selon-enquete-menee-depute states:
Une enquête menée auprès de 9.000 français expatriés ...
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Did the Al-Jawf region see snow for the first time in history in 2024?
The Morning News states that in November 2024 the al-Jawf region of Saudi Arabia received its first-time snow in history:
When a deserted place like Saudi Arabia sees its first-ever snow, you can’t ...
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Does the government of Brazil offer loans to the poor with annual interest rates from 40% to 80%?
According to the article The New Government Loan Scam: 5 Economic Impacts and Risks for Workers (quotes translated from Portuguese by Google), this is what Brazilians are getting. They can now take ...
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Did the Biden administration lose almost a trillion dollars to “improper payments”?
From whitehouse.gov, “Eliminating Bureaucratic Inefficiency”:
The Biden Administration’s lack of transparency allowed waste to flourish, with billions lost annually to improper payments and ...
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Did Biden’s Department of Education add rules that imposed 4,239,530 paperwork hours?
From whitehouse.gov:
The Department of Education burdens schools with regulations and paperwork.
Its “Dear Colleague” letters have forced schools to redirect resources toward complying with ...
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Is Trump deporting US citizens? [closed]
On or about March 17, 2025, hundreds of people were deported from the US, reportedly under President Trump's orders, pursuant to the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. The legality of this is questionable, but ...
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Was voice scrambling by addition of noise stored on synchronized phonograph records actually used by Winston Churchill circa WW-II?
The Wikipedia article on scramblers currently has a section stating, without source:
The first voice scramblers were invented at Bell Labs in the period just before World War II. These sets consisted ...
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In 2020, were there "an average of 347,000 drunk driving episodes each day" in the United States?
MADD claims:
In 2020, there was an average of 347,000 drunk driving episodes each day.
National Highway Safety Traffic Administration
https://madd.org/statistic_type/drunk-driving/
They cite the ...
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Can a pedestal fan, with a UV lamp attached on the back and fine mesh attached on the front, catch mosquitoes?
Reddit's r/lifehacks has a post by user u/sovalente: a video where an electric fan is repurposed for catching mosquitoes:
Amazing anti-mosquito device: a net on a fan with attached UV light to the ...
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Did the National Institutes of Health spend over $300,000 to study whether quails got more frisky after being fed cocaine?
Rand Paul Wants DOGE To Build a $500 Billion Rescission Package for Congress To Approve:
Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) is no newcomer to pointing out silly ways that the federal government wastes taxpayer ...
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Did a cartoon of Elon Musk telling people no free lunch while taking money get banned on X/Twitter?
I came across a claim on Substack (link to claim) that the below political cartoon, depicting Elon Musk telling the worlds' poorest "no free lunch" whilst pocketing money for himself, was ...
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